Connecticut western news., 1887-07-27
CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD.

| CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD.
 Several hundred Deputies, Senator's city officials and journalists of all shades of radi- calism have addressed an appeal to the Re publicans of France to organize a celebration | of the centenary of the 17S9 movement, to be l equally directed against the Moderate Repub- l icans and the Imperialists. | Meetings of the Irish National League took place in Dublin and Cork. | The French Government is now making Lebel rifles at the rate of 800 day at Saint l Etienne, and is preparing to turn out double that number. Four factories, those at Cha tellerault, Tulle and Saint-Etienne, will soon | be at work upon them. These guns are light, | and, using special powder, will drive bullet | a mile and half. The calibre and bullets are so small that a soldier can carry 220 rounds of | ammunition.
 l In the by-elections to Parliament in Bas- | ingstoke Brixton and Hornsey, England, the | conservative candidates were elected by great | ly reduced majorities.
 A collision occurred at Spithead between the British ironclads Ajax and Devastation. The Devastation was considerably damaged. | The Devastation is double screw iron turret ship, armor-plated, of 9,330 tons. The Ajax | is double screw iron armor-plated turret ship | of $50 tons. Both vessels are in the coast | guard service.
 The Coercion bill for Ireland, ha ving re- | | There have been severe snow storms in the | Swiss Alps. Six tourists, including three sons | of the director of Zurich College, have been lost on the Jungfrau. Several parties were | sent out to endeavor to rescue them, but their l efforts were not successful. The missiog tOur- ists were all Swiss. They were endeavoring to | make the ascent of the Jungfrau without guides.
 A meeting of conservative members ot Parliament was held at the Carlton Club London, to discuss the Irish Land bill. At the demand of General Ferron, Secre- | tary of War, the French Senate voted urgency 1 for his mobiizing bill The Senate also passed his bills for increasing tho army by adding four new cavalry regiments and eighteen new | infantry regiments.
 The Vienna press welcomed Emperor William to Austria in an unusually warm man. | ner. Mayor O'Keefe, of Limerick, Ireland, is to l visit us this fall.
 The funeral of Herr Krupp at Essen was attended by 12OO0 of the workmen employed | in his famous foundries. Messages of condol- ence were received by the family from the En- peror, Prince Bismark, Count Von Moltke and many other prominent persons. De Lesseps now doubts his ability to open | the Panama Canal in 1SS9 An American tourist named Dickens has | been arrested for firing revolver in the Gap  | echo.
 It is reported that an arrangement has | been made between the King and Queen of Selvia, and that there will be no official di- vorce, Milan allowing Natalie to reside in Germany with the Grown Prince. They will probably reside at Stuttgart. Twenty-Five deaths from cholera have oc- cured at Catana. The people are panic | stricken, and the thieves are taken advantage of the situation to loot the deserted buildings.
 The Turkish Commissioner in Crete has proclaimed the concessions which the Porte has decided to make to the Cretans. One-half the customs revenue collected in Crete is ceded to the Cretans the resolutions of the Cretan Assembly are to be sanctioned by the Porte within three months after they are passed and the Christians of the country are to have an enlarged share in the local government -Cambodia is in a state of tranquil ty The reported capture of King Norodom by rebels is without foundation. MT. Balfour started for Dublin to confer with the magistracy on the working of the Crimes act. It is expected the Government will refer the question of family charges and mortgages in Ireland to select committee at the beginning of the next session.
 The captain of French fishing vessel was fined f5 at Folkstone for fishing in Eng fish waters.
 A despatch from St. Petersburg says that the official announcement of the adjustment of the Afghan frontier dispute states that by the terms of the settlement the districts of Chanies and Khojasleh remain in the posses sion of Afghanistan, while Russia obtains certain pasturages along the Kushk River taken from the Saryk Turcomans by the ar engagements of 1885.
 An Englishman while climbing the Alps fell over precipice at Diavolezza. He had no guides with him at the time.
 In letter Archbishop Walsh urges the Government to suspend evictions until the Land bill is passed, and suggests conference of the various political leaders with regard to Irish affairs.
 The Ministers have opened the new docks at Dieppe.
 There are rumors of coming changes in | the British Ministry.
 The Sultan, through Herr von Radowitz, | the German ambassador, and by direct mes- senger, tried to persuade Sir H. D. Wolff, the | British Commission, to postpone his departure fir pm Constantinople. In his latest dispatch Lord Salisbury refused to modify the Egyp- tian convention.
 John Nash Peak, colliery owner of Staf- | fordshire, England has failed, with liabilities estimated at from $50O,0 to $1, ,00o,OoO. | All the powers have returned evasive re- plies to the circular note of the Porte with re- | gard to the election of Prince Ferdinand to the | throne of Bulgaria.
 A whip has been issued urging the Con- seryative members of the House of Commons | to be present in force to discuss the conduct
 of Dr. Tanner, Parnellite M. F., toward MT. i Walter Hume Long, Conservative M. F., in the | lobby of the House of Commons when the | former called the latter 8 snob.
 In the House of Lords the Crimes bill was
 read third time.g
 l Prince Jerome Napoleon is about to pub-
 lsh book entitled "Napoleon l. and his De-
 tractors" It will be complete expose of Ma | poleonic ideas.
 Mgr. Persico, the Papal Commissioner in
 Ireland, dedicated chapel at Wicklow. In
 the course of his remarks he said that he had | been inspired with admiration for the people
 in whose breasts he believed patriotism and
 reverence for the Catholic faith deeply
 rooted. The Pope, he said, loved Ireland, and
 for that reason had sent Commissioner to
 inquire into the condition of her people.
 In the French Chamber of Deputies the
 Experimental Mobilization bill was passed by
 vote of 329 to 110
 Great Britains convention with Turkey
 about Egyptian matters does not gain strength
 with time.
 The Iatrdnsigeant, of Paris, announces
 that the police at Grosgeran discovered certain | documents which give evidence of the existence | of Socialist plot to murder Emporer William | of Germany while journeying to Gastein.
 Many arrests were made of persons charged
 with being implicated in the plot.
 Mount Etna is in state of eruption and
 earthquakes arc reported in Sicily and along
 the Italian coasts.
 A despatch from St. Petersburg says that
 official circles there firmly believe that tho
 CZar will force Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Co.
 burg to decline the Bulgarian throne.
 THE CIVIL SERVICE.
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